Author

Bellavance, Angela M.

Date

2000

Advisor

Corcoran, Marjorie D.

Degree

Master of Arts thesis

Abstract

Experiments E799 Phase-II (E799II) and E832 of the Kaons at the TeVatron (KTeV) project at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), are in the process of studying rare and CP-violating kaon decays. The experiment ran during 1996 and 1997, and the resulting data are being analyzed. This study focuses on the E7991I search for the decay mode KL&rarr;p0m+/- e&mnplus; , and its accompanying background decays, in approximately 60% of the 1996--7 KTeV data.